Dalloway

Author: (English) Virginia Woolf
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Mrs. Dalloway, a long by the renowned British female writer Virginia Woolf, is her breakthrough work and one of the earliest attempts at stream-of-consciousness novels in Western modernism. Literary critic Dennis Potter pointed out that Woolf believed traditional European narrative forms had become overly artificial and overly restrictive for writers, making it difficult for them to express life in a poetic and impressionistic way. He said, "Woolf believed that capturing the seemingly disconnected but insightful moments of characters' impressions was a significant improvement in the form of the novel."